Confused readers are buying the wrong Fire and Fury

[brooklynite]

New York Post:

It’s “Fire and Fury” fever.

Confused readers are buying a military book in droves all because it has a title similar to Michael Wolff’s bombshell “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,” according to a new report.

“It amused me and part of me thought, can people really be that dumb to be confusing these books?” Randall Hanson, the author of “Fire and Fury: The Allied Bombing of Germany, 1942-1945” told the Guardian.

The Canadian political science professor at the University of Toronto never imagined his book — exploring civilian perspectives on the Allied bombing of Germany during WWII — would make it to Amazon’s bestseller list ten years after he wrote it, he said.

[Renew Deal]

1. lol

[PoorMonger]

2. Ha

Those Amazon reviews have got to be trolls.

[murielm99]

3. This is great.

Not everyone will bother to exchange the book. I hope Hanson makes some money.

[thucythucy]

4. I'm actually interested in this topic

and will try to get Hanson's book from my local library.

So thank you for the heads-up!

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

5. I'd bet Hanson's is the better book, though maybe not as timely. nt

[Brother Buzz]

6. I checked in with my library on Sunday...

and learned Wolff's Fire and Fury had not been ordered yet, but noticed there was suddenly a waiting list for Hanson's war book. The reference librarian and I had a chuckle about that.

Oh, bright and early Monday morning (well, actually a gloomy rainy day), our Podunk library had ordered a copy. I'm still waiting for the eBook copy to be released to the contract provider. The expedited release date caught a lot of people flatfooted.